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Saunders County. Our new website was brought online in August 2008 with the help of MIPS Inc. MIPS Inc is the Technology Services Division of the Nebraska Association of County Officials (NACO). NACO's website address is nebraskacounties.org
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SAUNDERS COUNTY is named for Alvin Saunders, governor of...
- Saunders County History
Saunders County was created by the Territorial Legislature...
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Saunders County was established by an 1856 act of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature, and was organized in 1866; [5] [6] its boundaries were redefined in 1858. [7] It was originally named Calhoun County after John Calhoun, surveyor general of Kansas and Nebraska. [8]
SAUNDERS COUNTY is named for Alvin Saunders, governor of Nebraska Territory during the tumultuous years of 1861-1867. Born to a Kentucky family that later moved to Illinois, Saunders continued west to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1836 at age nineteen.
Saunders County was created by the Territorial Legislature on Jan. 26, 1856 and at that time was named Calhoun County. But the name Calhoun was not popular among early settlers in the territory, as a government surveyor by that name was suspected of corruption and graft.
Saunders County was originally Oto Indian territory, and a large earthlodge village under Chief Itan was located here during the early historic period. Later, the Pawnee established villages in the area and in 1855 held peace conferences with General John M. Thayer.
Learn about the history of Saunders County, Nebraska and its people through the collections and exhibits of the Historical Society. The society was founded in 1963 and has a campus on Chestnut Street with over 25,000 objects from the 1870s-1980s.
Saunders County was created by the Territorial Legislature on Jan. 26, 1856 and at that time was named Calhoun County. But the name Calhoun was not popular among early settlers in the territory, as a government surveyor by that name was suspected of corruption and graft.
